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476. Keys That Unlock Miracles

Luke 7:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... Scriptures that reveal every participant at his best, but our lesson for today is one of them. Jesus has just finished teaching and he enters the town of Capernaum. He is surely tired. He had just finished giving the address we know as the Sermon on the Mount. Perhaps he had come into Capernaum for refreshment and relaxation. But there was a delegation there to meet him. It was a group of Jewish elders. They had a request for him. This is interesting. So often the New Testament spotlights conflicts between ...

477. Various Laws

Deuteronomy 21:22--22:12

Understanding Series

Christopher J. H. Wright

... the importance of the whole law (since this “least” law has the same major theological justification as the fifth commandment) and also the importance of human beings. Such reflection probably underlies what Jesus has to say about birds and people in the sermon on the mount, as well as his use of the expression in Matt. 5:19. Cf. Johnston, “ ‘The Least of the Commandments.’ ” 22:8 It is disputed whether the guilt of bloodshed meant that the houseowner would have faced a legal charge of homicide ...

478. Connected to Christ: I Am the Vine

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... I don''t have a secret. I don''t let anything come before my physical training and mental preparation. I refuse to be distracted by anything else on the face of the earth." Jesus was 2,000 years ahead of this approach to life when he taught in the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 6:33, "But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well." From my heart to your heart--can I tenderly ask you to consider the following question? Is there anything or anyone that is in ...

479. We Know Exactly How You Feel, Jesus

Hebrews 2:5-18

Sermon

Frank Luchsinger

... he might become merciful and faithful in the service of God. And ... he knows how we feel because he reaches out with a healing touch. The Sunday school hymn "He Touched Me" was inspired by the many gospel stories of Jesus' healing touch. After the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus came down from the mountain, as great crowds followed him. And he was approached by a leper who said, "Lord, if you will, you can make me clean" (Matthew 8:2) and Jesus stretched out his hand saying, "Be clean." And immediately the man ...

480. We Know Exactly How You Feel, Jesus

Matthew 8:3, Luke 7:14, Luke 8:44

Sermon

Frank Luchsinger

481. Building a Church

Mark 16:1-20

Children's Sermon

... was made out of rocks. They were large stones from a farm just outside of town. Many buildings today are made of brick, though. Did you know there are many places in the Bible where building something out of stone is mentioned? In one place, at the close of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said if we live by his words we will be like a man who built his life on the rock. When the storms came his house stood firm. But, if we do not build our lives on his words we are like a man who built his life on ...

482. The Example of Paul’s Suffering

Colossians 1:24--2:5

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... to the end. The term “mature” carries the connotation of completeness and realized potential. It suggests an understanding of basic facts about God and his salvation plan as well as an ethical lifestyle. Jesus uses the same Greek term in the Sermon on the Mount: “Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect” (Matt. 5:48).Twice Paul uses an athletic image to stress his fervent efforts on behalf of the Colossians and their neighbors in Laodicea. He “contends” for them, using a term ...

483. Paths of Righteousness

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... 29:8 demonstrates this when it describes the unrighteous person "as a hungry man who dreams he is eating and awakens still hungry, as a thirsty man who dreams he is drinking and awakens in the morning still faint with cravings." In the Sermon on the Mount, our Lord Jesus Christ does not say, "Blessed are those who are righteous," but he does say, "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness." In our understanding of righteousness it is best we never say or reflect that dirty four-letter ...

484. The Parable of the Ten Virgins

Matthew 25:1-13

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... darkness (vv. 14–30); and like the “goats” who do not respond to the needy, they will suffer the fate of the devil and his angels (vv. 31–46). The clear-cut distinction between the two groups reminds us of the parable with which Jesus closed his Sermon on the Mount (7:24–27, the wise man who built on rock and the foolish man who built on sand). Both the first and the last of the five discourses in Matthew end with the same emphasis. 25:1–5 Many writers find a number of allegorical features in ...

485. Why We Gather At The Table

Exodus 12:1-30

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... is as important as physical nourishment and intellectual nourishment . . . Do not beg God for favors. Instead, ask God for the wisdom to know what is right, what God wants done, and the will to do it. Know the Bible. Read the Psalms and the Sermon on the Mount, and everything else in that timeless book. You will find consolation for your darkest hours. You will find inscribed there the meaning of life and the way you should live. You will grow into a deeper understanding of life's meanings." (1) Arthur Ashe ...

486. If Only We Could Remember ...

Genesis 32:22-32

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... me to think of a God who could destroy us because we deserve it, yet who stoops down to beseech us, who waits for us to come home. If only we could remember that ... The closing words of Hosea’s prophecy sound like the closing words of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount: "Let the wise consider these things and let him who considers take note; for the Lord’s ways are straight and the righteous walk in them, while sinners stumble." (14:9, NEB)

487. One Thing Is Needful

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Arthur E. Dean Windhorn

... out that the coat was uneven? What went wrong? I'll tell you what went wrong. When you don't get the first button in the right hole, all the rest are out of sequence too, right?! That's a parable about life. Jesus said it this way in the Sermon on the Mount: "Seek first God's kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well." (Matthew 6:33) If the Lord is not the high priority in your life, then, like the overcoat, so many other things in life will be out of whack as well. Is it ...

488. You Can Be Real

Matthew 5:33-37

Sermon

Michael B. Brown

... Did you quit loving me? Is that why you won't take me back?" She answered, "No, it's far more serious than that. I didn't quit loving you. I quit trusting you." Out in the real world dishonesty is anything but amusing. In his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus talked to the disciples about the importance of integrity and told them that either the very fibre of our souls is honest or else, sooner or later, somehow or another, the garment of our lives will unravel. Jesus taught those disciples that they should live ...

489. Holy Believing

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... with the truth he declared. To believe Jesus is living as if what he said about God is true, the good life in the long run spells victory, our human nature has a potential which God alone can bring to fruition, and the lifestyle described in the Sermon on the Mount is the only one that satisfies. Anyone who has doubts here must remember that Jesus underwrote all this with his own life. He never flinched, even from the Cross. He was indeed the bread of life; and all who would partake of it, i.e., all who ...

490. Holy Believing

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Donald Macleod

491. I Just Need To Talk To A Real Person

John 15:1-17

Drama

Arley K. Fadness

... reached the office of Jesus of Nazareth. To confess your sins, press 1 now; to request a miracle, press 2 now; to hear a parable, press 3 now; to file a complaint, press 4 now; to schedule a baptism, press 5 now; to learn about the next sermon on the mount, press 6 now; to leave a message with one of the other disciples, press 7 now; and if you are using a rotary phone, give up. To repeat this frustrating process, push the pound button and scream now! Heidi: (Laughs heartily; Hattie joins her. They hug) Oh ...

492. Clean and Unclean

Matthew 15:1-20

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... enter by eating food that was ceremonially unclean (p. 149). Gundry writes, “The cleansing of all foods does not countermand the law, but intensifies it by transmuting the dietary taboos into prohibitions against evil speech, just as the so-called antitheses in the Sermon on the Mount did not destroy the law, but fulfilled it” (p. 306). In either case, the point of the saying is clear: the ultimate source of defilement is the heart, not the diet. 15:12–14 Verses 12–14 occur only in Matthew (although ...

493. Wedding, Wine, And Wonderment

Mark 2:18-22

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... of the Eternal. The purpose of fasting is to put us in touch with what matters most in life--the love and grace of God. Fasting is not meant to baptize God's people in lemon juice and make us sour-saints. This is one reason Jesus taught in the "Sermon on the Mount" that our fasting was not to be seen by others--but done in secret. Fasting is not done to impress others--but to incarnate God's love in our lives in a deeper way. There are some good reasons a person might choose to fast: 1. Self-denial: a way ...

494. Something New, Something Old

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... (not childlike, childish) faith and find it wanting, and so they discard it rather than allow it to mature. Unfortunately, in some circles, including certain academic circles, this discarding of faith is mistaken as a sign of maturation. In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus tells us, "Unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 5:20). The Pharisees, of course, represented the height of religious devotion in Jesus' time; but it was ...

495. A Perfect Prayer

Sermon

Erskine White

... in them. They are heroes of our faith, but they are human like you or me. The biblical honesty even carries over to King Solomon, the greatest king Israel ever had - the king of Israel's golden age. When Jesus spoke of splendor in His Sermon on the Mount, He reached all the way back one thousand years and spoke of Solomon (Matthew 6:29). Solomon ruled over a glorious empire. He built up trade and commerce throughout the ancient world. He built the magnificent temple in Jerusalem. His was an age of power ...

496. What Kind of Pillar Are You?

Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... had to keep up with God, the God of Smoke and Fire who stood by them and never abandoned them, but the God who forever led them onward. When Jesus addressed his audience in what Matthew’s gospel calls the “Sermon on the Mount” his audience was almost entirely Jewish. Jesus’ opening statements, the “beatitudes,” extolled behaviors and attitudes that were well recognized in Jewish wisdom literature. But with a difference. Jesus did not promise that these actions and attitudes would serve those who ...

497. A Blasphemer Stoned

Leviticus 24:10-23

Understanding Series

W. H. Bellinger, Jr.

... Priestly legislation to be flexible. The purpose seems to be to bring order and appropriateness to the community. In so doing, the text promotes a perspective which respects life as a divine creation. Jesus continues that literary and theological pattern in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5:38–39 when he goes beyond the lex talionis to turn the other cheek. Leviticus 24 also connects worship in the first section with order, or ethics, in the second. Hebrews 9:2 picks up the references from the worship ...

498. Dust And Ashes

Genesis 18:16-33

Sermon

Erskine White

... us. It leads us to admit our frailty and confess our sin. Of course, we're not surprising God or telling Him anything new, since God already knows our sin; but we are telling ourselves, and that is good. It is no accident Jesus began His Sermon on the Mount by saying, "Blessed are the poor in spirit ... (Blessed are those who know their need for God)" (Matthew 5:3). The Bible teaches that spiritual pride is the most fundamental of all sins, because it keeps us from knowing our need for God. But Abraham knew ...

499. Ezra Comes to Jerusalem

Ezra 7:1-10

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... example, “You shall not commit murder” shows the sanctity of human life and our responsibility not only to avoid homicide but to help preserve life. These implications of the commandments are spelled out in the rest of the Old Testament and in Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5–7). Up until the time of the exile the priests were the guardians and teachers of the law. After the exile the scribes become more important. Ezra is both a priest and a scribe; according to Jewish tradition he had a lot ...

500. Don't Be Stupid

Jeremiah 4:5-31

Sermon

Richard L. Sheffield

... have agreed with General Omar Bradley who wrote: "Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war then we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount" (Source unknown). When I was flying to New York a couple of weeks ago I caught up on some reading. I don't remember specifically what I read that prompted it, but I wrote a note to myself on my ticket envelope. It said: as a society ...

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